11/20/2023 0 Comments A black lady sketch show online![]() Sketch shows play with style they are fast and fleet, highly maneuverable and modular. It’s perfect for parody, satire, social commentary or examining the small quirks of human nature. Freed from the demands of narrative and character development, sketch comedy tends to be more intellectual than emotional perhaps it’s more accurate to say that even its emotions are rooted in ideas. It can be abstract, absurd, or shot through with topical urgency, expressing from series to series or sketch to sketch an individual vision or group dynamic. Often beginning with the question “What if?” sketch comedy is all about possibility. Nothing on television in recent years has been more ambitious or radical than HBO’s “Random Acts of Flyness,” a sort of Afrocentric art-variety show by way of Jean-Luc Godard from the Brooklyn-based filmmaker Terence Nance or Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim’s Adult Swim series “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!” before it or Ernie Kovacs’ surrealist blackouts way before that. Yet this perceived lack of importance makes them an excellent vehicle for distinctive, even oddball points of view. Compared to the dramas and sitcoms that dominate the conversation in this Triple-Platinum Age of television, they can seem ephemeral, the well-fortified institution of “Saturday Night Live” notwithstanding - a fancy version of something amateurs put on in coffeehouses and YouTubers post with a smartphone and half an idea. ![]() Sketch shows are the stealth bombers of television.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |